My Film Critic pants are quite fetching; they are on, pressed, and ironed. I'm ready to review six new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, November 7th, 2025. 1) PREDATOR: BADLANDS So here we go again. Another Predator movie. The sixth live-action one, if you're keeping score, though, at this point it feels like the fourteenth because they've been trying to keep this thing alive for decades. Dan Trachtenberg , who made the actually-pretty-good Pre

My Film Critic pants are quite fetching; they are on, pressed, and ironed. I'm ready to review five new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, October 31st, 2025. 1) SELF-HELP Self-Help is one of those small, surprising little horror movies that sneaks up on you. It's not a franchise spin-off, not a studio-backed IP cash grab, not something made by committee. It's a weird, moody, sometimes awkward, but ultimately compelling little movie that blends c

My Film Critic pants are quite fetching; they are on, pressed, and ironed. I'm ready to review seven new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, October 24, 2025. 1) BUGONIA There's a line that keeps getting thrown around whenever Yorgos Lanthimos releases something new: you either get him or you don't. And that's exactly right. Because Lanthimos doesn't make movies for people who want comfort food, he makes cinematic fever dreams that leave you laug

My Film Critic pants are quite fetching; they are on, pressed, and ironed. I'm ready to review five new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, October 17th, 2025. 1) AFTER THE HUNT After the Hunt is Luca Guadagnino doing Woody Allen . Or, more accurately, Luca Guadagnino dismantling Woody Allen. Because what this movie really is, at its core, is a thought experiment: What if you tried to make one of those pompous, pseudo-intellectual Woody Allen fil

My Film Critic pants are quite fetching; they are on, pressed, and ironed. I'm ready to review six new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, October 10th, 2025. 1) TRON: ARES I'm going to start by saying something that might get me kicked out of a certain nostalgic corner of sci-fi fandom: I am not a Tron fan. When the original came out in 1982, I was a junior in high school heading into my senior year. It was the summer of Road Warrior , Blade Runn

My Film Critic pants are quite fetching; they are on, pressed, and ironed. I'm ready to review five new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, October 3rd, 2025. 1) THE SMASHING MACHINE This one has "Oscar bait" written all over it. Benny Safdie , going solo without his brother Josh , has decided to take on the life of MMA fighter Mark Kerr , and he's brought in Dwayne Johnson for the ride. And look, this is clearly an attempt to do for Johnson what